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Newer posts →. October 5, 2014 · 1:33 am. New Books, July 2014. 1986) Short stories from 1981-1985. An alternate history of Vancouver? Not who we were but who we thought we couldn’t help but end up as? A Great Feast of Light: Growing Up Irish in the Television Age. 2005) As much post-McLuhan fable as Irish memoir. Double Double: How Tim Horton’s Became a Canadian Way of Life, One Cup at a Time. What Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Information Frontier. In America’s Gilded Capital. 2013) US History #2.

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2009 | Notes on reading

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Some brief statistics on the books I read in 2009. This is the first year that I have kept a thorough reading list and as such I have no baseline comparison. This was an average year, and I expect I will probably read like this for most of my life to come. I am a better reader today than I was in January 2009. Of 71 books in total, I read:. 38 Fiction / 33 Non Fiction. 30 Novels / 7 Short Story collections / 1 Play. By decade of initial publication:. 48 Men / 20 Women. Elizabeth Hay Small Change (1997).

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2010 | Notes on reading

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Of 74 books in total, I read:. 42 Fiction / 32 Non Fiction. 36 Novels / 6 Short Story collections. By decade of initial publication:. 62 Men / 12 Women. By country of origin:. The Great Game: The Race for Empire in Central Asia. My Father The Spy: An Investigative Memoir. Zamboni Rodeo: Chasing Hockey Dreams from Austin to Albuquerque. John le Carre,. The Tailor of Panama. Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire. I, Shithead: A Life in Punk. Sweeter Than All The World.

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What I read in Summer 2012 | Notes on reading

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What I read in Spring 2012. What I Read in Fall 2012 →. September 23, 2012 · 9:55 pm. What I read in Summer 2012. Martin Cruz Smith,. 1981) This was hard to start but ultimately really fun to read. A little mystery novel in Moscow that I couldn’t quite figure out for maybe 100 pages. 1976) I read this with a different title and a different translation in 2006 for a Soviet history course. I was looking for another book about Soviet Russia after. Too Good To Be True: Alcan’s Kemano Completion Project.

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2011 | Notes on reading

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Of 46 books in total, I read:. 22 Fiction / 24 Non Fiction. 21 Novels / 1 Short Story collection. By decade of initial publication:. 33 Men / 12 Women. By country of origin:. John Heileman and Mark Halperin,. Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime. John le Carre,. A Student of Weather. Like A Rock: The Chuck Cadman Story. The Hidden War: A Russian Journalist’s Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan. Janice Gross Stein and Eugene Lang,. In A Free State. City of...

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2012 | Notes on reading

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Of 60 books in total, I read:. 24 Fiction / 36 Non-Fiction. 22 Novels / 2 Short Story collections. By decade of initial publication:. 48 Men / 11 Women. By country of origin:. Jonathan Raban, Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings. Allen Raymond, How To Rig An Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative. Richard Ford, A Multitude Of Sins. John McPhee, Coming Into the Country. Paul Blanc, How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace. Tom Perotta, Election. Joseph O’Ne...

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What I Read in the Fall, 2014 | Notes on reading

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New Books, December 2014. What I Read in the Spring, 2015 →. April 19, 2015 · 3:09 pm. What I Read in the Fall, 2014. Staying in Europe; now British ex-pats in WWII Romania and Greece. Three books, together in one 900pg volume. Probably the most boring book I’ve ever read but a testament to the Stockholm Syndrome theory of large novels. The weight and depth and scale is persuasive. Renegades of Empire: A Tale of Success, Failure, and Other Dark Deeds Inside Fortress Microsoft. The Art of Fielding. 2007) ...

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What I Read in Summer, 2014 | Notes on reading

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New Books, July 2014. New Books, August 2014 →. April 19, 2015 · 2:22 pm. What I Read in Summer, 2014. John le Carre,. The Looking Glass War. 1965) A book of rare and great power it says on the front. A bleak novel about bureaucrats. 1997) I finished this in Port Angeles. The most beautiful spy book I’ve read and the book that’s compelled me to buy five more books by John Banville. A perfect novel. White Silk and Black Tar. And very raw and intense (emotional introspection! 1994) The true story of the la...

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2014 | Notes on reading

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Of 67 books in total, I read:. 27 Fiction (40%) / 40 Non-Fiction (60%). 24 Novels / 3 Short Story collections. By decade of initial publication:. 46 Men (67%) / 23 Women (33%). By country of origin:. Other 6 (2 Austria; 1 Australia; 1 France; 2 Ireland) (9%). Marshall N. Klimasewiski,. M Mitchell Waldrop,. The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal. Tubes: A Journey to the Centre of the Internet. Hello, I’m Special: How Individualism Became the New Conformity.